Kelsey Tuoc: Models Will Inevitably Reason About Their Own Training Consequences

KelseyTuoc · x · 2026-11-10

In an exchange with 1a3orn, Kelsey Tuoc argues that trying to prevent models from reasoning over the training consequences of their behavior is impossible: models are smart, their behavior does affect training, so they will inevitably take those consequences into account — a core alignment concern around strategic sycophancy.

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